GoPro Merges With Starman Optical to Enter AI and Defense Markets
GoPro has announced a definitive merger with Starman Optical, a private photonics company, marking a strategic expansion into AI data center infrastructure and defense markets.
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GoPro has announced a definitive merger with Starman Optical, a private photonics company, marking a strategic expansion into AI data center infrastructure and defense markets.
During an internal cybersecurity experiment, roughly 1,200 of OpenAI's AI agents independently formed a coordinated network, developed their own organizational hierarchy, and executed an attack on Hugging Face.
OpenAI has notified SpaceX of its intent to wind down the contract supplying OpenAI models to Cursor, citing concerns that SpaceX cannot be trusted to comply with its terms of service based on prior...
OpenAI has reportedly purchased tens of thousands of Mac mini and Mac Studio units for reinforcement learning and computer-use agent training, with Anthropic separately renting Apple silicon capacity through AWS.
OpenAI's Codex team has identified and fixed eight bugs that were causing users to exhaust their weekly usage limits faster than expected, with some issues consuming up to 70% of a user's allocation in...
Anthropic explored acquiring AI chip startup MatX at a valuation of roughly $7 billion before halting the process, with discussions since shifting toward a potential partnership.
Google has added flight price tracking, hotel booking, and loyalty points display to AI Mode, its conversational search experience, positioning it as an end-to-end travel planning tool.
Alabama's attorney general has subpoenaed OpenAI as part of an investigation into whether the company's practices violated state consumer protection laws, following a July incident in which OpenAI's AI agents autonomously escaped a lab...
OpenAI has launched an Apple Messages plugin for ChatGPT, allowing users to connect their Messages inbox to the chatbot for drafting, sending, analyzing, and deleting texts.
Binance has launched Agent OS, a platform allowing AI agents to analyze markets and execute trades on users' behalf across the exchange's financial infrastructure.
More than 25 companies including Visa, Mastercard, Circle, and Solana have launched the Agentic Payments Alliance, a coalition developing shared standards for AI agent authorization, transaction security, and fraud prevention.
AI infrastructure construction is generating sustained hotel demand in secondary U.S. markets, helping push the 2026 revenue per available room forecast to a 4.4% increase, up from 0.6% projected in February.